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Achaari Chicken – Chicken with Spicy Mango Pickle

“Nah! It’s not really cold yet!” I’ve been repeating this to myself every day. Well… the weather hasn’t dipped that low yet. Come on, don’t frown – it’s Minnesota for goodness sake! If I complain of the cold, I might as well pack my bags and leave.

Walking to the bus stop yesterday morning was bitterly cold. I felts little streams of tears running down my face and no, I was not crying, my eyes were watering from the bitter wind blowing into them.

I headed back home and immediately sought out the temperature gauge. “What?! It was only 15F degrees, not that cold!” There’s still more cold to come I’m sure…..

Needing some comfort, I headed to my sanctuary, my kitchen. A nice spicy hot dish with chilis and fenugreek would do the trick. I immediately set to work. Several plates later of my Achaari Chicken and fresh hot rotis, I felt much better. A fuzzy heat engulfed my senses from the warming spices in the masala*.

The Achaari Chicken dish, did the trick for my husband too. Well, he did need some warming up after spending time outside dealing with a snowy driveway.

Heres a dish called Achaari Chicken. Achaari meaning indian pickle – Achaar is full of warming spices like fenugreek and red chilis. They are several versions of Achaar, every family has their own recipe and heres mine, Methi Mango Pickle. You can substitute a store bought mango pickle too and that is perfectly alright.

What beautiful photos, Shamim! That looks like a wonderfully warming dish. Love that you can just whip something like that up. Would take me a lot of planning, but at least I have your recipe now 🙂 Plenty warm this weekend–yay 🙂

Thanks Liz! I’ve been struggling with the photos recently! I think I’ll have to get one of those super cool photo labs set up with the cool lights. I just use natural light and my kitchen right now. So glad the weather is warm this weekend. Feels like its been yo-yoing the last few weeks. About to make your gauc right now 🙂